Patents by Inventor Jean-Philippe Lajoie

Jean-Philippe Lajoie has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9934360
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for dental data planning. In various embodiments, an operator of the system can design a dental data plan, have it checked, and see various aspects of the plan on the display. The plan may be designed in the abstract and that abstract plan can be checked for compliance with material and product constraints. Also from that abstract plan, a list of necessary scanning tasks may be produced and displayed. In some embodiments, plans for multiple patients can be designed and the scanning for those patients may commence before all of the patients are completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Biocad Medical, inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Lajoie, David Giasson
  • Patent number: 9089387
    Abstract: Herein are provided methods, systems, computer-readable media, techniques and processes for surface manipulation in dental prosthesis design. These include providing an interface for modifying the surface of a model of a dental prosthesis. This interface may be provided to an operator, dentist, dental practitioner, or any other appropriate person via a computer and a computer display. The operator provides areas in which the operator would like to add a layer or other limited manipulation to the surface of the model. This may include an addition to the surface or a subtraction from the surface. As the operator is defining additional areas to manipulate on the surface (e.g., add or subtract a layer), invariably some of them will overlap. Unlike previous methods, this overlap will not cause the amount added to the surface to increase beyond the predefined limit for the layer. This allows operators to define cleanly added layers or cleanly subtracted layers from dental prostheses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: BIOCAD MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Lajoie-Dorval
  • Patent number: 8949730
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable storage media for library selection in dental prosthesis design. Embodiments include presenting two or more dental morphology libraries for use in a dental plan and receiving a selection of one or more tooth morphologies from one of the presented dental morphology libraries. The selected tooth morphologies can then be placed in the dental plan at particular tooth positions. An operator can also replace all tooth morphologies in a dental plan with those of a particular library or “mix and match” tooth morphologies from multiple libraries in a dental plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Biocad Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: David Giasson, Jean-Philippe Lajoie-Dorval
  • Publication number: 20120022834
    Abstract: Herein are provided methods, systems, computer-readable media, techniques and processes for surface manipulation in dental prosthesis design. These include providing an interface for modifying the surface of a model of a dental prosthesis. This interface may be provided to an operator, dentist, dental practitioner, or any other appropriate person via a computer and a computer display. The operator provides areas in which the operator would like to add a layer or other limited manipulation to the surface of the model. This may include an addition to the surface or a subtraction from the surface. As the operator is defining additional areas to manipulate on the surface (e.g., add or subtract a layer), invariably some of them will overlap. Unlike previous methods, this overlap will not cause the amount added to the surface to increase beyond the predefined limit for the layer. This allows operators to define cleanly added layers or cleanly subtracted layers from dental prostheses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: BIOCAD MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Lajoie-Dorval
  • Publication number: 20120015328
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable storage media for library selection in dental prosthesis design. Embodiments include presenting two or more dental morphology libraries for use in a dental plan and receiving a selection of one or more tooth morphologies from one of the presented dental morphology libraries. The selected tooth morphologies can then be placed in the dental plan at particular tooth positions. An operator can also replace all tooth morphologies in a dental plan with those of a particular library or “mix and match” tooth morphologies from multiple libraries in a dental plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: BIOCAD MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: David Giasson, Jean-Philippe Lajoie-Dorval
  • Publication number: 20110196653
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for dental data planning. In various embodiments, an operator of the system can design a dental data plan, have it checked, and see various aspects of the plan on the display. The plan may be designed in the abstract and that abstract plan can be checked for compliance with material and product constraints. Also from that abstract plan, a list of necessary scanning tasks may be produced and displayed. In some embodiments, plans for multiple patients can be designed and the scanning for those patients may commence before all of the patients are completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: Nobel Biocare Services AG
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Lajoie, David Giasson